Netflix’s Bird Box Is Basically An A Quiet Place Rip-off

“Thou shalt not steal” is a commandment that Hollywood isn’t fond of obeying. For every hit production, there is at least a dozen copycats, remakes or replicas. Remember how many The Matrix rip-offs there were in the 2000s? Or how many racers there were after The Fast & The Furious? Well, it seems like John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place isn’t exempt. Netflix’s Bird Box seems incredibly similar to the 2018 horror film.

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To be fair, Bird Box is based on a 2014 novel of the same name by Josh Malerman. It follows a chilling post-apocalyptic story where a young mother is trying to get her two children to safety in a world overrun with monsters. The biggest problem, however, is that nobody knows what the monsters actually look like.

Like A Quiet Place, the Netflix Original follows a similar unnerving tone and also places the focus on family. Of course, the major difference is that here the survivors seem to make as much noise as they possibly can as long as they remain blindfolded.

When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie [Bullock] finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous river to the one place left that may offer sanctuary. But to survive, they’ll have to undertake the perilous two-day journey blindfolded.

Sandra Bullock stars as Malorie, the protagonist, and is joined by John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, BD Wong, Jacki Weaver, and Rosa Salazar.

First of all, how dare you. Bird box is an amazingly terrifying novel that’s been out for 4 years. When I saw the trailer for a quiet place the first thing I thought was, wow what a rip off. Turns out that movie was excellent so I was okay with it plus it was technically a different premise but to call birdbox a rip off is just rude. You admit the novel came out first so why write this article at all? Just to stir the pot? Anger the true fans? Put seeds of doubt into the minds of those who have never heard of the novel so they watch the movie with contempt? Let people decide for themselves what’s worth watching and stop trying to skew opinions before they’ve even gotten a chance to see the movie.

The Mist and The Happening came out well of 4 years ago and Bird Box took the essence of both of those movies and novels. BB was a weak movie all together. The characters were stereotypic, gaps explaining actions and like most movies today the pushing of the left agenda on genders roles and behavior. The movie was shot well and far as cinematography but that was it only saving grace.

If ANYTHNG Bird Box the Novel and Netflix film is a rip off of a Twilight Zone episode that many might remember. The author of Bird Box is simply stealing ideas and turning them into cash. What a joke.

Bird Box is nothing original. It’s just combining some ideas from other works decades ago with some typical zombie-type material (e.g. a bunch of idiots struggling to stay alive but repeating the typical moronic mistakes to make sure they fail).

This movie is a direct rip off of ‘The Crazies’ and ‘The Happening’, that was my thought in the first 10 to 15 minutes of the film. I don’t doubt the guy who wrote the book in 2014 saw both films and got the ideas that made up the entirety of his book, from those films!